This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1704. Excerpt: ... "ing made a Man capable of serving and "worshipping that God, from whom I "had my Being, 'tis but reason that I "should apply my self to this, as being "my proper work and business: Tsto M A Ijscv fc'r "And therefore hereunto will "I devote my self, as being the chief "employment to which I am designed. "I am now as to the condition of my "body, lame and old (faith he in the fame place) to which he might have added that he was sickly and deformed 5 and as for his outward quality, he was poor and under servitude, being a slave to Epaphroditus, one of the Roman Courtiers 5 which are conditions that usually expose men to repining and discontent5 and yet he concludes it to be his duty, "wholly to devote himself to the praises "and worship of that God, who was the "Author of his Being. Which upbraids so many professors of Christianity, who have both more advantages of knowing their duty, and greater engagements upon them to exercise themselves in the duties of Religion. There is another apposite Testimony to this purpose in Antoninus. "Every thing Lib-8. "(faith he) is designed for some kind sen. 19. "of work. Beajis and plants, the fun "and "and stars au irjt ri 5 And what do ' you conceive your business to be? sen' sual pleasures? Bethink your self a little "better, whether this be suitable to your natural sentiments, to the nobility of "your mind, and those excellent faculties with which you are endowed. Now 'tis the usual course of men to apply themselves to that as their chief business, by which their interest is most promoted, and which may most conduce to that main end which they propose to" themselves. And can any thing be more seasonable, than for that to be the chief business of a man's life, which is the chief end of his Being...